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What does student learning look like in your classroom?
How one Utah teacher sees that technology shouldn’t be center stage in teaching and learning; rather, the focus should be...
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Leading for and through Change
Three CCSSO leaders share strategies from their states in support of personalized, competency-based learning. And none are alike.
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Imagining Liberatory Education Futures
Introducing our sixth anchor forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures.
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Overcoming Differences in Federal Accountability and Assessment Reform
KnowledgeWorks is thinking deeply and critically about a set of policy solutions that will help our country create a bridge...
Published: March 2, 2022
Topics: Education Policy
Topics: Education Policy
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Leading for the Future
Two school board members introduce futures thinking tools to help districts carry out five-year strategic plans.
Published: March 1, 2022
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Explore the Future with Vania Pérez, Early Childcare Facilitator
Vania Pérez is a character from the IMPACT: Learning Edition board game. Learn more about what drives her.
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From Preschool to Postsecondary
Learn about the educator collaboration and goals behind Utah's alignment of competencies and their Portrait of a Graduate.
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The Fast Track to COVID Recovery Is Not Through Tracking
How state and local policymakers can dismantle tracking and build more student-centered, equitable education systems
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Future Possibilites for Education
Introducing our forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures.
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Meet Pat Li, a Teacher from the Future
Pat Li is a character from the IMPACT: Learning Edition board game. Learn more about what drives them.
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More Than a Word
How we’re changing the way we work to center the needs, interests and passions of each student.
Published: January 19, 2022
Topics: Education Equity, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change, Vision and Culture
Topics: Education Equity, Impact and Improvement, Systems Change, Vision and Culture
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Personalizing Professional Development: On the Path to a Collaborative Culture
Changing what professional development looks and feels like to support personalized, competency-based learning at scale.
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The Stories You Loved in 2021
Here are the resources from 2021 that you found valuable to help make education more resilient, sustainable and flexible.
Published: December 16, 2021
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
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Students Want Meaningful, Personalized Learning – and Pennsylvania Educators Do, Too
How listening to students – and acting on what they hear – is shaping teaching and learning in Pennsylvania
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Forging Youth-Centered Futures: Bringing Youth Visions to Life
Paper shares youth visions for a post-pandemic future of learning and strategies to achieve them.
Published: November 29, 2021
Topics: Future of Learning
Topics: Future of Learning
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Meet Jayden Harris, Youth Justice Advocate
Jayden Harris is a tireless champion of Black youth, and his hopes for the future just might be yours, too.
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Unlocking the Potential of College in High School for Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities belong in college in high school programs, too.
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Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Can and Should Replace Tracking – Here’s Why
Explore a series of 13 comparisons to demonstrate how tracking can and should be replaced with personalized, competency-based learning.
Published: November 16, 2021
Topics: Education Equity
Topics: Education Equity
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Students Sparking Change
A student-led initiative to remove an Indigenous mascot highlights one district’s journey to becoming more student-centered.
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Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation
A report on insights and innovations emerging in K-12 assessment systems.
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Go-to Instructional Strategies for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
A regular review of instructional strategies can serve as a gut-check and highlight areas of excellence and opportunities to grow.
Published: November 4, 2021
Topics: 101
Topics: 101
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Let’s Face It: Tracking Is Intentional Systemic Inequity
Why tracking is problematic and what we can do about it.
Published: November 2, 2021
Topics: Education Equity
Topics: Education Equity
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Strengthening Systems: How States Are Rethinking Human Capital Systems and Technology Infrastructure in the COVID-19 Era
How 12 states are rethinking systems and infrastructures for supporting individual learning of every student.
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Meet Governor Williams, an Ambitious, Community-Minded Leader
A character from IMPACT: Learning Edition, Karissa Williams helps players explore the future for community leaders.